It was a urban-only type vehicle in the end. No one out in some rural area was ever going to buy it. With the price tag....no one in their teens or twenties were going to desire it. Toss in the $2k cost to buy the garage charger and install it....and possibly hooking up to the industrial grid machine (not the cheaper home grid costs)....and you had something that wasn’t marketable. A dozen books will be written on the demise of this, and how America failed the Volt, or how the Volt failed America.
The sad thing is that if there was a market for it....it would have been a winner. There just isn’t a market for it today.
Usually you try to figure that out before you start production.
Why isn’t the Volt selling well in liberal places such as San Francisco? Aren’t there enough liberals out there to make their political statement and buy this car?
How could there be a market for it? There are quite a few cars on the road that beat the hell out of a Volt. The Smart Car costs about $16k I think. You could buy two for the cost of a Volt after rebate. It parks in a smaller spot and has more range.
I still remember going ballistic by email on a Denver reporter for calling that thing the “all-electric” Chevy Volt at the car show. I asked him why an all-electric car has a tailpipe. He answered that GM told him to call it that. I wrote, “Are you a reporter or a shill for GM and the govt?” Never got an answer back on that one.
There just isn’t a market for it today.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I agree, no market for the Volt, for a vehicle that catches fire or its charging stations catch fire.
Its a multi thousand dollar match stick. I definitely think Obama should drive one several hours each day. Maybe we would get lucky.